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Category Archives: Summer Contracts
Back with a Vengeance – At Sea – [09/21/2015]
Amras and I had pretty much settled into the fact that if we wanted to play COD, we were just going to play with each other; it’s surprisingly difficult to find players onboard sometimes, and Predator has left ships so … Continue reading
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Flying Start – At Sea – [09/21/2015]
You can lull yourself into forgetting what a crossing is like; until you’re back in one and the memory comes back with frightening force. Embark day for a crossing feels almost like embark day for a world cruise, only slightly … Continue reading
Stock-piling – Juneau, Alaska – [09/16/2015]
One thing about Crossings, they always take a hefty chunk out of your paycheque. Mentally surviving a crossing requires stuff…mostly in the way of snacks and such, because the ship does on occasion run out of things. As a result, … Continue reading
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Swept Away – At Sea – [09/19/2015]
As of yesterday we have officially left Alaska behind us; and it saw us out with a gale. Ketchikan was drenched in side-ways falling chilling rain, with wind too strong to keep an umbrella open and puddles across the roads … Continue reading
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Blood Bank – At Sea – [09/14/2015]
I realized, when I entered the latest title in the file that I have started using to keep track, that I have read nearly 20 books so far this contract. Only two of those have I not completely finished – … Continue reading
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What Is a Hero? – Glacier Bay, Alaska – [09/11/2015]
Little did she know she’d kissed a hero Though he’d always been an angel in her eyes Putting others first its true That’s what heroes always do And now he doesn’t need a pair of wings to fly 14 years … Continue reading
Timber! – Ketchikan, Alaska – [09/08/2015]
Ketchikan at the end of season rains…a lot; and when it’s not raining, it’s trying to rain. So we usually gravitate towards somewhere with some kind of shelter; and preferably something in the way of warm drinks. In this case, … Continue reading
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Surprise! – Glacier Bay, Alaska – [09/11/2015]
Departmental meetings are a very serious business, or at least they can be. Particularly when one is called in the middle of the week and everyone is being very tight-lipped about it. Not even me, who usually can milk information … Continue reading
Ice Escapades – Glacier Bay, Alaska – [09/15/2015]
One does not know the meaning of the world “cold” until one jumps headlong into an unheated outdoor pool, under a sky that is threatening snow (actually I swear it was snowing already), with a bucket of ice thrown in … Continue reading
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One Down…Three to Go – Skagway, Alaska – [09/10/2015]
And so we enter the weeks of “last”…last salmon bake, last Tracy’s crab shack, or in today’s case…last Skagway. It’s only one tiny little street, mostly tourist shops and jewelry stores, and one IGA grocery store whose shelves get more … Continue reading
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